ALSF Childhood Cancer Research Grants
With your support, we have been able to fund outstanding research, leading toward cures and improved quality of life for children with cancer. Browse through more than 1,500 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding and Preventing Healthy Tissue Damage in Pediatric Cancer Patients | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Kristopher Sarosiek, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2014 | Massachusetts |
| The YB1 Way of Surviving Radiation, Pediatric Brain Tumor Resistance and Recurrence | Emory University / Abhinav Dey, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2015 | Georgia |
| Dissecting Functional uORFs as a Source of Cancer Genes in High-Risk Medulloblastoma | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / John Prensner, MD/PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2021 | Massachusetts |
| MLL-based chromosomal translocations in the pathogenesis of childhood leukemia. | Children’s Mercy / Erin Guest | Young Investigator Grants | 2009 | Missouri |
| CD19 Delta Ex2 Isoform as a Target for Alternative Therapies in Relapsed Pediatric B-ALL | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia / Asen Bagashev, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2016 | Pennsylvania |
| Modifying CAR T cell epigenetic programs to improve therapy against aggressive pediatric brain tumors | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Meghan Ward, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2024 | Tennessee |
| ECM-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for high-grade glioma | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital / Jessica Wagner, PhD | Young Investigator Grants | 2019 | Tennessee |
| Donor T-Cell DNA Methylation in GVHD and the Graft-vs-Tumor Effect after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Yiouli Panayiota Ktena, MD | Young Investigator Grants | 2020 | Maryland |
| Identifying Therapeutic Targets for MiT Associated Pediatric Cancers | Yale School of Medicine / Sean Landrette | Young Investigator Grants | 2012 | Connecticut |
| The p53-Mad2-Genomic Stability Pathway in the Development of Childhood Malignancies | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Pascal Duijf | Young Investigator Grants | 2010 | New York |